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“Whether you want to or not, you’re going in there. There’s no escaping this. There’s no running away from me, kitten.”
My eyebrows pinched together. “Why on earth would they think I’d agree to this?”
“Because we’ll be partners in this merger. Inheriting everything.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was like I was suddenly dragged back to that young girl who had no say in her life.
Her future.
I’d spent years proving myself to my grandfather that I could work for him. Graduating from high school and college with honors, making the dean’s list every semester. Sacrificing my personal life for the reward that someday I’d inherit Montgomery Enterprises.
Not because I was bribed into receiving what was rightfully mine, but because I’d earned that title of CEO.
As if reading my mind, he observed, “I know how you feel, kitten.”
“Do you? Because from where I’m sitting, you look content as ever.”
“I’m not the enemy anymore.”
“Really?” I mocked. “I don’t know about you, but I sure as hell don’t know how to see you as anything other than my rival. It’s been ingrained in me since birth.”
“That didn’t stop you from ending up in my bed, now did it?”
“You pompous bastard!” I shot up, pitifully governing my emotions.
“Kitten,” he coaxed, cocking his head to the side. “You should be thanking me, not insulting me. I came here to warn you, so that you wouldn’t feel the ambush I did.”
“That’s funny, considering it still feels like a trap. One set up by all of you.”
“I know what you’re thinking.”
“You don’t know anything.”
“I know that you’re seething from the inside out right now.”
“That’s obvious! Come to think of it, why aren’t you?”
“Trust me, I was.”
“Trust you?” I spewed. “Those are fighting words, Tristian.”
“Kitten, I—”
“You were?” I interrupted, not wanting to hear his excuses. “How long have you known about this?”
When he confessed, “For the last five months,” I almost fell back in my chair.
“And you’re just now telling me?”
“I couldn’t confront you until I wrapped my mind around everything they’re demanding.”
“Wrapped your mind around what? Are you really telling me you’re okay with this? That you agree with it?”
“What if I do?”
“You can’t be serious. You?” I asserted, standing my ground. “The eternal bachelor with his playboy ways?”
He hid back a smile. “Kept tabs on me, huh?”
